THE ROMANCE OF COMMERCE BY J. MACDONALD OXLEY, LL.B., B.A. NEW YORK: 46 EAST 14th Street COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY. 10 VIMU AIMBORLIAD C. J. PETERS & SON, TYPOGRAPHERS. C. J. PREFACE. THERE has been a romance of commerce, no less than a romance of war. Men have shown equal enterprise and daring in enlarging incomes as in extending the bounds of empire, and gold has run close rivalry with glory in adding brilliant pages to the world's history. It has been the aim of the author to make some attempt towards recalling the more interesting of these pages for the benefit of the young people to whom this little volume is especially addressed; but before beginning his recital he wishes to make due acknowledgment to Messrs. Harper & Brothers, Chas. Scribner's Sons, and the publisher of the Cosmopolitan magazine of New York, for the privilege of reprinting such of the following chapters as first appeared in their periodicals. J. M. O. 250855 |